Jacob Radcliff

Jacob Radcliff (20 April 1764-6 May 1844) was Mayor of New York City (F) from 13 February 1810 to 1811 (interrupting DeWitt Clinton's terms) and from 10 July 1815 to 1818 (succeeding John Ferguson and preceding Cadwallader D. Colden).

Biography
Jacob Radcliff was born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York in 1764, and he became a lawyer in 1786. He became a lawyer in Poughkeepsie as well as a member of the General Assembly, and he served on the New York Supreme Court from 1798 to 1804. From 1804 to 1810, he practiced chancery law in Brooklyn, and he was elected Mayor in 1810, serving from 1810 to 1811 and from 1815 to 1818. He supported the rise of Tammany Hall, and he left office in 1818. He died in 1844.